Many people believe science has all the answers in this world including the so called the origin of everything including the existence of human beings by relying on scientific proof.
2007-10-19 09:25:09 · 15 answers · asked by Agree! 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Because science is based strictly on logic and nothing else. And let's just face it... life does not follow the road of logic.
2007-10-19 10:32:45 · answer #1 · answered by Brooklyn Avenue 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, from an evolutionary standpoint science can answer the meaning of life. It is simply to survive to be able to carry on the human race. However, from a Philisophical standpoint, science can't answer that because in this case the meaning of life would be an arbitrary intellectual concept, which Philosophy doesn't deal with.
2007-10-19 09:40:00 · answer #2 · answered by mannzaformulaone 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I don't think science answers all the questions in this world. That's what philosphy and religion are about. There are some things in life that can't be explained scientficially...especially the meaning of life. But then you posted in Philosophy, so you already kinda know that.
2007-10-19 09:32:16 · answer #3 · answered by Annie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science is a great instrument to understand the world we live in and to make predictions about what is likely to happen within. However, questions of meaning in the sense you use the word "meaning" here are strictly outside its boundaries. What you ask about has to do with values, with ethical meaning. It may be that these values only make sense to us as humans, or that there is some underlying metaphysical reality to them our senses are unequipped to grasp. In any case, the objectivity of science precludes it from heading in that metaphysical direction.
This allows science to remain objective (at least ideally). It is its strength and also, perhaps, its limitation.
2007-10-19 09:52:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science can't answer what is the meaning of life. but it can answer how did life originate. Meaning is by it's very definition subjective thus it is not only science that can't answer what is the meaning of life religion philosophy etc have an equally difficult time trying to answer that.
2007-10-19 09:35:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science, by definition, does not deal with purpose. Science might be able to trace how the earth and the sun and the moons came to be, but it can't say why they came to be.
Meaning of life comes from living for a real purpose, i.e. for what reason do I exist? This question is not in the province of science to answer.
2007-10-19 23:24:08 · answer #6 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
confident and that they are very close. they are searching for the 'God Fragment' employing the particle accelerator in Europe. the invention, mutually because it is going to likely be the main important discovery for mankind in this contemporary era, it is going to marvel and unnerve many human beings truly interior the non secular fraternity. it fairly is talked approximately as The Grand Portal, a dimensional gateway of astronomical ability.
2016-12-15 04:06:22 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing can ever duplicate or come close to the intricacies
of the individual human personality...at least as we know it
today. We are getting a bit robotic however, just reacting
to pre-programmed info, so one day science might even
conquer humanity. I'll be dead and glad of it if it comes to
that.
2007-10-19 09:37:25 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question supposes, maybe incorrectly, that there is a meaning of life which is intrinsic and not merely given by the living. Science cannot answer this because science delves into objective questions. The meaning of life is a subjective question.
2007-10-19 09:35:52 · answer #9 · answered by mike 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science would already like you to believe it HAS the meaning of life!
2007-10-19 10:13:56 · answer #10 · answered by craukymuvilla 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋